Cake and Eat It

cake & eat it bored with the relationship s/he’s in but not wanting to leave the positive aspects, thinking s/he’s too old to start again & been there before anyway--- with a pattern s/he knows all too well looming just over the horizon, s/he takes the plunge, not looking before s/he leaps & not wanting to think about the significant other who may be at home wondering, waiting & wanting to get to the bottom of the change in habits (all that are noticeable & s/he thinks they aren’t), the change in his/her look (clearly prepping for somebody else & the audience at home ain’t buyin’ that its them), the change in the craving for attention from the one s/he lives with & of course, the list goes on--- s/he starts to look outside the cell, refusing to leave on her/his own, desiring & desiring & burning up inside with sheer want, until s/he comes across someone that s/he cannot have, someone who says s/he’s got to choose between the stability of boredom at home or a new trip, entirely, someone who reveals the obvious in plain English--- “cannot have your cake & eat it too.”